Re: turn shared hosting server to external image storage hosting

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote: > do you have any idea how to do this. i have a small vps about 10GB > space. i live somewhere is south east asia where solutions like Amazon > S3 is incredibly slow. (500ms ping time). > > i have a simple php gallery. But dedicated server is quite expensive > ($100/month). searching around, i found several local hosting > companies provide a very cheap shared hosting. ($100 / year, 300GB). > local server with 40ms ping time. > > i am interested to use that shared hosting just as storage for images > of my gallery and a cheap vps to store the database. > > What is the best way for me to accomplish this? Amazon S3 using REST > etc. Is it possible to write a simple storage (REST system) like > amazon s3 in PHP? is there anyone wrote this before. I am interested > in your solutions.. have you tried photobucket ? we have an api in php which is freely available and we use a CDN for caching all around the globe. in fact, id be interested to find out how it stacks up over there, in your neck of the woods. -nathan